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"<!-- wp:bc/brightcove {\"account_id\":\"6146886170001\",\"player_id\":\"default\",\"video_id\":\"6312011930112\",\"playlist_id\":\"\",\"experience_id\":\"\",\"video_ids\":\"\",\"embed\":\"iframe\",\"autoplay\":\"\",\"mute\":\"\",\"playsinline\":\"\",\"picture_in_picture\":\"\",\"height\":\"100%\",\"width\":\"750px\",\"min_width\":\"0px\",\"max_width\":\"750px\",\"padding_top\":\"56%\",\"sizing\":\"responsive\",\"aspect_ratio\":\"16:9\",\"max_height\":\"360px\"} /-->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The new X3 Performance and Physical Therapy facility that opened a couple months ago in Fort Myers is usually taken up by the best of the best football players.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>High school, collegiate and professional ballers train at the gym in the offseason. However, on Wednesday night, a different clientele occupied the space.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce's Women in Business took over the training facility to learn how to protect themselves. The Lee County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) hosted an event that taught women from around the local area self-defense and how to be aware of your surroundings.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Tonight is about empowering the women in our business community through teaching them self defense as part of our women in business monthly networking event,\" CEO of the chamber of commerce Brian Hamman said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The group comes together each month for different events. In the past, they have gone to a dog shelter, an arcade, and other local businesses. However, this month's event they wanted to prepare their members for the coming months.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Especially as we head out into the holiday season when a lot of folks will be shopping and out at the stores,\" Hamman said. \"Now they’ll know how to be aware of their surroundings and protect themselves.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The participants were all eager for the training. There were about 50 women in attendance. The sheriff's office first held an informational presentation and then got into what everyone was waiting for -- some hands-on training.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Having a demonstration that’s more of an active event, instead of your typical go and have a drink, cocktails, and just kinda everyone gets to walk away with something that they’ve learned tonight,” participant Jesi Crane said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The women learned how to be aware of their surroundings in multiple different situations, avoid dangerous occurrences, and protect themselves if someone attacked them. The hands-on training included how to strike and get away from an attacker.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I mean [I want] like one technique to take someone down,\" Crane said. \"If it had to happen I wanna know how to do it. Something that I can actually do and maybe show others. That would be cool.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That is exactly what Crane and all of the attendants got.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->"
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